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Single-player games like Wizdom Academy

Below are 9 single-player Steam games similar to Wizdom Academy, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.

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Ranked picks

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    Endzone - A World Apart — Steam game cover

    Endzone - A World Apart

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation24.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stronghold: Warlords — Steam game cover

    Stronghold: Warlords

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

    2021StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Endzone 2 — Steam game cover

    Endzone 2

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.

    2025StrategySimulation29.99 USDSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Per Aspera — Steam game cover

    Per Aspera

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Make Mars your own! Take control of the world’s most sophisticated AI (AMI) and terraform the surface of the Red Planet for a city-building experience on a planetary scale. Transform this barren world into a lush paradise and explore the surface for any ancient secrets that may be waiting.

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation29.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic — Steam game cover

    Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

    2024StrategySimulation39.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) — Steam game cover

    Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.

    2013StrategySimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Prison Architect — Steam game cover

    Prison Architect

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

    2015StrategyIndieSimulation7.49 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Foundation — Steam game cover

    Foundation

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

    2025StrategyIndieSimulation34.99 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →
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    Spellcaster University — Steam game cover

    Spellcaster University

    Single-player alternative to Wizdom Academy — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Wizdom Academy.

    Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.

    2021StrategySimulation8.74 USDDeck PlayableSingle-playerSimilar games →